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Roosevelt reptd ready to seize mines but hopeful of avoiding army use; Cong officials reptd drafting legis sanctioning mine seizure and operation
Churchill tells Commons goal of Libyan drive is to destroy Axis armies
service to Ireland planned for Spring; map
Kurusu and Nomura get instructions from Tokyo; continue confs with Hull; Hull tells envoys no settlement is possible on basis of Tojo's statement to Diet; U S not expected to continue talks indefinitely without progress; Japan not expected to break with Axis while Germany has chance to win Eur war; Sen Nye says U S could win peace by making minor concessions to Japan on China; U S Sen Bridges says U S must not attempt appeasement
Y Chatel to be Gov Gen
1941Henrietta Vinton Davis, American actress and playwright (born 1860)[†]
Henrietta Vinton Davis was an elocutionist, dramatist, and impersonator. In addition to being "the premier actress of all nineteenth-century black performers on the dramatic stage", Davis was proclaimed by Marcus Garvey to be the "greatest woman of the Negro race today".
